Someone Inside

"We have a problem."Marco's voice cut through the quiet of the breakfast room before Eliora had even lifted her cup. Severin looked up, his fork stilling mid-motion."What kind.""The kind that doesn't wait." Marco set a tablet down on the table between them. "Overnight chatter across three different channels. Someone's confirmed Miss Aster's exact location. Not the estate in general. This house. This wing."Eliora's stomach dropped. "How is that possible? I haven't left this house in two days.""That's what worries me," Marco said. "Whoever's talking isn't guessing from outside. They know things only someone inside would know."Severin's jaw tightened. "Details.""The chatter mentions a west wing bedroom. Overlooking the water." Marco's eyes flicked to Eliora, then back. "That's not public information. That's not even information most of the household staff would have reason to know."The room went very quiet.Eliora set down her cup, hands unsteady. "You're saying someone here is t

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Lockdown

"Move. Now."Severin was already crossing the room, one hand closing around Eliora's arm, pulling her away from the window before she'd fully processed what Lucien had said."Someone's coming here? Right now?""We don't wait to find out." Severin's voice had shifted into something harder, faster, every trace of the calm philosopher from moments ago replaced by a man moving through practiced motion. "Lucien, seal the study. Get Marco on the radio.""Already on it." Lucien was speaking into his earpiece before Severin finished the sentence, his composure snapping back into place like armor.Eliora's heart pounded as Severin guided her toward the study's side door, away from the windows, into the narrow interior hallway she hadn't known existed."Where are we going?""Somewhere without a clear line of sight from outside." He didn't slow down. "The coordinates were for this room. That means whoever sent them knows the layout well enough to be specific. I'm not giving them a target to aim

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The Message

"Absolutely not," Severin said again. "You're not going near him.""Then bring him to me," Eliora said. "Somewhere controlled. With your men everywhere. But I need to hear what he knows.""You don't owe a stranger with a hidden weapon anything.""He said he'll go to every Commission family by morning if I don't." Eliora held his gaze, steady despite the fear still coursing through her. "That means whatever this is, it's coming out either way. I'd rather hear it first, on my terms, than read about it secondhand tomorrow."Severin's jaw tightened, but she watched something in him shift, not agreement exactly, but recognition that she had a point he couldn't fully argue against."The library," he said finally. "Windows sealed. Marco's men at every exit. He comes in alone, unarmed, searched twice.""Understood," Marco said, already relaying instructions through his radio.Ten minutes later, Eliora stood in the library beside Severin, watching the door with her heart hammering against her

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All Chapters of Claimed by My Ex's Mafia Father: Chapter 11 - Chapter 13

Someone Inside

Lockdown

The Message